by Pascal Lachat

When Terrascene first came out, wonderful tool developed by Todd Klaus, we all hoped to finally get very realistic landscape sceneries, and the first screenshots from America seemed to confirm our expectations.
Alas, not for the "rest of the world" and far less for Europe !
Again, the issue is about non-free satellite image diffusion for our countries. Well, there was a possible enhancement (see the first tutorial at Fly.Simvol) but the result was not up to our hopes.
Pascal has well seen the issue, and started to study a process for detailed landscape rendering, shadowed, where the forests, rivers, villages and mountains give the exact feeling of real flight. The result is this nice tutorial he places at our disposal at Fly.Simvol.

Now the best is to go to Pascal's pages and after reading carefully, step in and design your own sceneries. A PDF version is downloadable as well, the link is at the end of the tutorial.

Finally what do we get with this "enhancement" ? Beware, look at the following screenshots carefully, you won't believe your eyes !

Unbelievable, isn't it ?